We see Dexter
driving through dry agricultural fields, following Boyd's yellow utility
truck.

As they head
down a dirt road lined with palm trees, Dexter thinks to himself: "How
desperate am I, to follow Boyd to the middle of nowhere?"

Boyd's car swings
onto another dirt road, this one lined on one side with tall eucalyptus
trees.

Dexter follows
him to a secluded clearing, where he watches Boyd take a barrel from the
back of his truck and throw it into a swampy pond.

Dexter assumes
that Boyd is just disposing of some of his dead animals, and then his investigation
is cut short by a phone call from
Debra, telling him that the kids are missing.

Q.
What is it actually in real life?

A. Rural roads,
but far from Florida.

Q.
Where can I find it in real life?

A. The scene
is composed of two shots. The first has Dexter following Boyd onto
a narrow road lined with tall palm trees. The second shot has Dexter following
Boyd as he turns past some tree stumps onto a road lined with what appear
to be eucalyptus trees..

Both shots were
done in Oxnard, CA,
of all places, not far from the dead raccoon
location.

The first
shot of this scene, where Dexter follows Boyd onto the narrow road
lined with palm trees, was shot on an unnamed dirt road just
south of E. Hueneme Road, and about
60 yards east of the south end of Nauman Road.

That road, which
runs between two agricultural fields, appears to actually dead-end (after
about 150 yards) at a farm house.

The second shot - which has Dexter following
Boyd around a turn (where a few tree stumps are visible) was filmed
just one street to the east (of that palm tree road), on a dirt
road that runs along an irrigation ditch, and is lined on one side with eucalyptus
trees.

In that shot,
Dexter is heading east on E. Hueneme Road and turns south down that
dirt road.

That road is
only about a third of a mile west of Pacific Coast Highway.

I have my suspicions,
but I'm waiting to see the next two episodes before making up my mind about
just where they shot it.

Right now, my
hunch is that it's an amalgamation of several locations. It looks like
they came to the Oxnard area to shoot those swamp scenes, but may have
opted instead to shoot most of them at another spot, much closer to home.

If you follow
that second road south, for about a mile, you will come to the wetlands
area near Point Mugu Naval Base, and a swampy-looking pond that might (I
add might) have been one of the locations where they filmed. But it's a
hard thing to verify...

Warning:
one or both of these dirt roads may well be private roads on private
farm property, and if so, driving on them might constitute trespassing. I haven't been
there in person to check, but on StreetView I believe I see a "No Trespassing"
sign posted on a chain-link on the other side of that irrigation ditch. So
mind those signs.

Q.
How the heck did you figure out where it was?

A. I had
already figured out the dead raccoon
location. Based on glimpses of farm land in the background, I assumed that
these roads might also be in the Oxnard area.

So I started
my search at that raccoon location. I used Bing's Birds-Eye View to look
for palm trees, specifically, a long row of tall, trimmed palm trees.

I didn't have
far to look. I found it just a short distance from the dead raccoon road.

And it wasn't
hard to confirm that they were the same palms. Count the palm trees along
the road in that shot, starting from the right, and you'll see that the
7th palm tree is a tiny runt.. Now, compare that to the row of palm trees
seen in the Bing Birds-Eye
photo, and you'll find the same little palm tree, seven from the right.

Later, I went looking
for the second road. Since I could see that it was lined with heavy trees
(not palms), I switched to Google StreetView and began looking at the entrance
to every road nearby that was lined with heavy trees. There were
a few of them. But I knew that the road I wanted had tree stumps at its
entrance, as well as an overhanging limb of eucalyptus that dangled near
the ground, as well as a power wire slanting up from the ground.

When I came
to the right road, all of those elements were there - although it took
some careful looking to see them from StreetView. They did that shot
with a long lens that greatly compressed the apparent distance between
objects, so that overhanging limb, which looks like it's right next to
the road, is actually a bit closer to the irrigation ditch. And that slanted
power wire descends into that ditch... Finally, in one shot, at the far end
of that road, you can see a farm house with two narrow trees next door.
Bing aerial photos show that farm house to be right where it should be...